Mary Jeffries

Mary has over 30 years experience working with management teams on their challenges of aligning operations with strategic initiatives; reorganizing for long-term growth; improving business processes and performance; decreasing costs and maximizing reviews. Her career has spanned public accounting, executive level corporate positions and professional consulting. Mary has worked in or with emerging growth and global companies, new ventures and owner-managed firms. Before taking this role Mary was a principal at Acuity Strategic Consulting. Prior to Acuity Strategic Consulting, Mary was the Chief Executive Officer of Polaroid Corporation. Before Polaroid, Mary was General Partner and Chief Operating Officer for St. Paul Venture Capital a large early-stage venture capital firm and Chief Operating Officer of WeberShandwick an international public relations and marketing communications company. Mary has been active in many non-profit and for-profit company boards. She currently is on the Board of Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.